87 TII, TECgt, T04-R....DGRR '09 build!

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by classicauto

Yea I was reading your thread yesterday and caught some wind of an overheat or something? I have no idea what it is, I think maybe if you're the type to never give up, life gets pissed off and throws all kinds of crap your way. But I'm sure you'd agree that rotary failures do not equal life failures - and in life I'm a very lucky man.

Yeah, the short story is I was @ the dyno until 9:30 Tuesday night before DGRR pounding the snot out of the motor when she had about 700 miles on her but pulling 18-19" of vac. Thursday morning @ 10:30 ... as in leave for DGRR in 2.5 hours I went for an emmisions test. Emmisions for non OBD-II cars in CT is a 25-30 mph roll. The jackass that did the test held her in 1st gear @ 6000rpm's+ for about 4+ minutes. They popped the turbo feed oil line which started the smoke, I jumped over the counter into the bays and started screaming to shut her down. Coolant and oil temps were >230 and hit about 260 from soaking. Now she pulls ~14" vac. Warped apex seal, flattened spring, damaged housing, who knows. She still breaks the 255/40 RT-615's loose in 2nd though.

After alot of screaming from the manager telling me there's something wrong with my car for it to overheat like that, and me explaining that on the highway my t-stat doesn't open and sits @ 170-175*, you assholes don't have a fan and closed the hood, calling the owner of the company and getting a few formal apologies, it's going through insurance and they owe me a new motor as far as I'm concerned.

So I got the car home, good friend came over to help out, the peeps I was caravaning with drove to my place. We repaired the oil line, flushed the coolant, changed the oil, replaced the water pump and got on the road for DGRR @ midnight... fun times. Oh, I hadn't slept the night before either so by the time I passed out @ 4:30 friday morning I had broken my record and gone 44.5 hours strait with no sleep.. woot! /jack

So yeah, bad joo-joo I guess and life keeps throwing up blocks and we just keep charging through them.

Originally Posted by classicauto

And you shall see pics of the carnage for sure. Just have to get at 'er...

Please do, I'm kinda curious as to what actually failed. One thing that I don't like about the water or alky injection systems is that they are totally independant of the main EMS. Is there anyway to have a switched input with the Tec? What I'm thinking is a switch that's basically high/low boost settings. Low boost = no water. High boost = water. And then have an output from the Tec control the water injection. This way you can run the maps two different ways and the Tec is always in charge of everything. Boost control outside of the EMS is somthing else that kinda doesn't give me warm and fuzzy feelings but at least that is something that can be managed with proper tuning.

Make sense? I'm whooped and not sure if this is logical.

As far as Laptops, I just bought today a new Toshiba from BestBuy for $400 soley for the 7. I was sick and tired of the Dell randomly shutting itself off and for $400 to end a headache, it's worth it. The last time it shut off I was about to turn the "ignition switch" off VIA the Motec. Had I done that and then the laptop shit the bed.... I would've had to move my desktop into the garage for the sole purpose of turning the "ignition switch" back on. Now I can't get online to DL all the programs that I need